Jens C. Pruessner

Research interests

Publications

• Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines

  Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.10.010

• Quantitative comparison of 21 protocols for labeling hippocampal subfields and parahippocampal subregions in in vivo MRI: Towards a harmonized segmentation protocol

  NeuroImage · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.004

• Multi-atlas segmentation of the whole hippocampus and subfields using multiple automatically generated templates

  NeuroImage · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.054

• Neuropathology of stress

  Acta Neuropathologica · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-013-1223-5

• Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201295109

• Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene–childhood trauma interactions

  Nature Neuroscience · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3275

• Larger amygdala but no change in hippocampal volume in 10-year-old children exposed to maternal depressive symptomatology since birth

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105371108

• City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10190

• Patch-based segmentation using expert priors: Application to hippocampus and ventricle segmentation

  NeuroImage · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.018

• The brain and the stress axis: The neural correlates of cortisol regulation in response to stress

  NeuroImage · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.074

• Cutting stress off at the pass: Reducing vigilance and responsiveness to social threat by manipulating attention.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.93.4.651

• Deactivation of the Limbic System During Acute Psychosocial Stress: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

  Biological Psychiatry · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.04.041

• Impaired familiarity with preserved recollection after anterior temporal-lobe resection that spares the hippocampus

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0705273104

• Symmetric Atlasing and Model Based Segmentation: An Application to the Hippocampus in Older Adults

  Lecture notes in computer science · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/11866763_8

• Self-esteem, locus of control, hippocampal volume, and cortisol regulation in young and old adulthood

  NeuroImage · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.014

• The Montreal Imaging Stress Task: using functional imaging to investigate the effects of perceiving and processing psychosocial stress in the human brain

  Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1139/jpn.0541

• Dopamine Release in Response to a Psychological Stress in Humans and Its Relationship to Early Life Maternal Care: A Positron Emission Tomography Study Using [ 11 C]Raclopride

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.3422-03.2004

• Focal Decline of Cortical Thickness in Alzheimer's Disease Identified by Computational Neuroanatomy

  Cerebral Cortex · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh200

• Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change

  Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4530(02)00108-7

• Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms and Stress Levels in Healthy Young Men: Associations With the Cortisol Response to Awakening

  Psychosomatic Medicine · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1097/01.psy.0000040950.22044.10

• Regional Frontal Cortical Volumes Decrease Differentially in Aging: An MRI Study to Compare Volumetric Approaches and Voxel-Based Morphometry

  NeuroImage · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1006/nimg.2002.1173

• Volumetry of Hippocampus and Amygdala with High-resolution MRI and Three-dimensional Analysis Software: Minimizing the Discrepancies between Laboratories

  Cerebral Cortex · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/10.4.433

• The cortisol response to awakening in relation to different challenge tests and a 12-hour cortisol rhythm

  Life Sciences · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3205(99)00103-4

• Burnout, Perceived Stress, and Cortisol Responses to Awakening

  Psychosomatic Medicine · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-199903000-00012

• Free Cortisol Levels after Awakening: A Reliable Biological Marker for the Assessment of Adrenocortical Activity

  Life Sciences · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3205(97)01008-4

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